Traveling on the Thousand Miles of Tea Road
by Liu Xiaohang
About This Novel
Taking the rise of the Sino-Russian Wanli Tea Road in the middle of the Qing Dynasty to its decline in the early 20th century as the main line of time, it takes the Yangloudong in Hubei Province, one of the sources of the Wanli Tea Road, to Hankou, the Oriental Tea Port, the land and water transfer center credit store, Jinzhong, the base camp of Shanxi merchants, naturalization, Zhangjiakou, and Kyaktu on the Sino-Russian border. Focusing on the city as a narrative space, we use the historical facts of the formation of the tea road and the historical figures and major events related to the tea road (including Chinese businessmen, British businessmen, Russian businessmen, government officials and people, mainly Shanxi merchants) to introduce the glorious history of the thousands of miles of tea road and the sadness that it will inevitably be annihilated in the storm of the times.
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